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To: Dawn53Fl

None of the examples you provided portrayed God as being a women.


16 posted on 02/14/2017 11:26:11 AM PST by Gamecock
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To: Gamecock

In Narnia, Jesus is portrayed as an animal.


18 posted on 02/14/2017 11:37:48 AM PST by marktwain (We wanted to tell our side of the story. We hope by us telling our story...)
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To: Gamecock

The Shack also portrays God as being a man and explains why He allowed Mack to see a woman portrayal of Him in the beginning of their encounter.

But that’s neither here nor there. It’s still a novel, fiction. Gandalf and Aslan are often seen as representations of Jesus in Tolkien and Lewis’s stories, but Gandalf was a wizard and Aslan was a literal animal (I know Jesus is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, but not an actual Lion in the Scriptures.)

I don’t discard those books because of that, I don’t read them for my theology lesson...I read them as they were written, as works of fiction.


20 posted on 02/14/2017 11:38:57 AM PST by Dawn53Fl
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To: Gamecock

God tell us in Genesis that we (men and women) are made in His image.

I don’t claim the Shack is biblical truth through and through but it is more like a parabel; like Pilgrim’s Progress.

I do have an issue with anyone coming away with the idea that you can get to Eternity without Jesus Christ.


28 posted on 02/14/2017 1:16:26 PM PST by spacejunkie2001
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